Straight Talk Review for "The Politician"

Warning, the following may be offensive
to some liberal readers. Proceed at your own caution…

I recently
finished reading “The Politician - An Insider's Account
of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him
Down” By Andrew Young.

This was a fascinating read, and admittedly a salacious insider’s view of the
making of an American President, Democrat style. Andrew Young was the ultimate
insider, believer, and dare I say, cult victim.

I honestly bought the book for three reasons – I
like to know how the enemy operates. But I also, I admit, bought it because of
the gossipy value of it.

The third reason is I wanted to see how a liberal
mind thinks. Not just how Edward’s mind works, but how the author’s mind works
as well. Do not pass up this book. It is fascinating. It ended up that Edward’s
extra marital affair wasn’t the most astonishing thing about this book. There
were numerous other revelations that left me saying out loud, “I knew it!”

For those of you who dare read this on the liberal
side, if you think the Democratic Party is the protector of your ethnic or
racial rights, you really need to think again. Something I have not heard or
read with regard to this book is the fact that a very huge Southern Democratic
Party source of money holds an event when they anoint the next Democratic
politician for President. Young wrote that the event is hosted by a very, very
wealthy multi-millionaire who has hosted for many years. And many other
multi-millionaires attend to see and meet whom it is they’re going to pour
their riches into.

In this particular description – a party to launch
John Edwards -- essentially the only black/African American faces present were
in a service capacity. No exception to this. They were either waiters or in the
band that played for the huge event. The way he described this star-studded,
power players affair was as if it had come out of a Plantation-day shin-dig
prior to the Civil War. It might as well have been. No African Americans
apparently were invited to the party. They were only good enough to serve those
in attendance.

At first, I thought, why this alone didn’t give
Young a clue is beyond me. The great lie of the Democratic Party revealed.
However, Young takes you through the whys and hows of his “I’ll look the other
way” behavior. You know what, I found myself at one time in my life in a
vaguely similar situation and could relate as to why you just keep looking the
other way and deny, deny, deny.

The other revelations I observed were not so much
the things Andrews revealed shame in having done. It was some of the things he
described that he obviously, even in hind sight, has no inkling isn’t something
he should ever have been involved in.

Straight off the bat – Mrs. Edwards is no saint. This is not in any way to say
she was responsible for her husband’s horrible behavior. The only one
responsible for John Edward’s behavior is John Edwards. This is to make clear,
she isn’t without her fatal flaws.

I use the example of concocting a web site, strictly
to deceive the public into thinking it was a grassroots effort to drum up
support for Edwards to run for President. So dreamed up by Mrs. Edwards after the
John Kerry/Edwards Presidential bid didn’t quite work out. Mrs. Edwards desired
to have her husband run for President the next time around and wanted to start
early to drum up support in that direction.

What was actually very shocking to me is the author
never indicated that there was anything wrong in attempting to create this
ruse. He never once mentioned the slightest regret about the whole plan even
though it never actually came to fruition.

To be fair, he did express regret about other bad
behavior, but this instance and there were others he described, were void of
any remorse. Obviously, what I just described isn’t a huge thing. However, it
is the “little” things like this planned con, that adds up to why the bigger
ones aren’t such a huge leap.

Mrs. Edwards isn’t a very nice person, but
regardless, I believe I wouldn’t be so nice to people had I been diagnosed with
what was pretty much a death sentence and I kept catching my husband with other
woman. In fact, was I her, I very easily could have behaved worse. So an
attempt by the author to paint the woman as an ogre didn’t fly with me even
though apparently there were times when Mrs. Edwards definitely crossed the
line.

Andrew Young seems to have redeemed himself
somewhat in his efforts to clear his name with the writing of this book. It’s
quite amazing his marriage is in tact after all that happened. His wife is the
one who should receive the “Saint” label.

John Edwards – well, I suggest you read the book
and make up your own mind. I do know this. We all fall short of the glory of
God. This book and the players in it – are for all I could tell, Godless. So it
isn’t surprising John Edwards is an extremely unsympathetic character as I once
was before I was “found”.

Those who read this also might get an insider’s view – as I feel I did – of how
the Democrats groom and create the façade of their “Chosen One.” It is so
corrupt, so filled with smoke and mirrors. It’s shocking how their “flock” can
follow the deception and believe that anyone other than a fake, propped up,
phony Presidential candidate emerges from such a process. To be frank – given
what the Democratic Party has turned into (it hasn’t always been like this), an
evil entity – nothing in the book was a stunning revelation to me. But it was a
fascinating read. I highly recommend it.

Edwards has to be one of the weakest, hypocritical pieces of #$%6 going - his deception is extraordinary and what is even more extraordinary is the lack of outrage by his cronies and followers... what more do you need.

Sylvia Van Velzer 7 years agofrom Hawaii

I knew it! Sounds like a real interesting book to read just to confirm what we already know. As you say, we all fall short, but these guys really thought they were fooling us! Nice hub!